About the Author

Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. has been on a Goddess path since 1979; this has included diverse spiritualities and a scientific perspective, inner work as well as academic scholarship. Her studies have been in theology, ritual, archaeomythology, social ecology, psychology, sociology and education.

Glenys grew up in country Queensland Australia. Glenys considers herself a student of the Poetry of the Universe – a language expressed in scientific story, mythological metaphor, ancient and contemporary images of integrity, body movement and dance, stillness, chants and songs. By these means, she has conducted geo-therapy – ecological reconnection – for herself and with others.

Glenys’s work, PaGaian Cosmology, is grounded in the Old European Indigenous religious practice, integrated with evolutionary perspective and Goddess scholarship.

Glenys’ M.A. is in Systematic Theology and Philosophy included education in liturgical practice at the Jesuit School of Theology Berkeley California. She has just re-located to her homelands of Queensland Australia, with her partner Taffy (Robert) Seaborne, after decades of living in the Blue Mountains Australia; where she facilitated Seasonal ceremony in MoonCourt with an open community, taught classes, and mentored apprentices. Glenys is a featured contributor to Return to Mago E-magazine and is presently writing a new version of her PaGaian Cosmology. In 2014, Glenys co-facilitated the Mago Pilgrimage to Korea with Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang.

In 2019, Glenys was a keynote presenter, and educator at Wise Women Gathering, a Conference dedicated to Herbal Wisdom, Holistic Healing, Women’s Mysteries and Community.

Glenys has also contributed to these magazines, journals and blogs:

Feminism and Religion blog, guest contributor, 2015 ongoing

Moon Diary 2015, Shekhinah Morgan, Australia

Return to Mago blog– featured, regular contributor, 2012 ongoing

Goddess Alive!, 2015, 2014

The Beltane Papers, 2010 -2011

Gaian Voices, 2007-2009

Matrifocus, 2007-2008

Goddess Pages, 2008

Medusa Coils blog, 2008

AliveMind – Review of documentary about Marija Gimbutas Signs Out of Time

– Review of DVD series Women and Spirituality

Ecoliving Magazine, Australia 2008

Women-Church: An Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 1986 – 1996

This doctoral research was an experiential study of the three phases of the Triple Goddess as Creative Cosmological Dynamic: an interpretation of these three faces as representing the Dynamic by which the Cosmos unfolds, that is, the extant Creativity that is in continual transformation and has always been so. Accordingly, as this thesis takes the Cosmos to be a seamless whole, the conscious alignment of one’s being with this Creativity would be a more complete alignment with the continual process of transformation innate to Being. … This research re-stories the Female Metaphor in her three aspects, as an image and dynamic of Ultimacy, and this re-storying is enhanced by an identification of Her three faces with Thomas Berry’s three faces of Cosmogenesis – differentiation, communion, and autopoiesis – which he and Brian Swimme say compose “the fundamental ordering of the universe”. They call the composition of these three, “cosmic grammar”.

The ritual celebration of seasonal points are then developed as a method of embodying and sensualizing, and “speaking” this deep Dynamic of Creativity – as a method of aligning one’s being with the continual cosmological unfolding. These ritual celebrations are based in ancient Western spiritual practice that relates with Earth’s cyclical transitions. Presented here is a convergence of such Earth-based spiritual practice with a Western scientific cosmology. For more

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Glenys identifies this Cosmic-Organic Creative Triplicity with the Triple Spiral engraved by the ancients at Bru-na-Boinne (Newgrange) in Ireland, understanding this motif to express the essential creativity at the heart of the Cosmos.

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